Invesco Global Thematic Innovation Equity Fund
Capturing innovation earlier

Invesco Global Thematic Innovation Equity Fund

Access innovations earlier through the analytical power of Natural Language Processing (NLP), an application of artificial intelligence.

Key advantages

The fund in 60 seconds

The investment process

The goal is to capture innovations by investing in equities that are associated with multiple investment themes around the three key overarching megatrends.

The Invesco Quantitative Strategies (IQS) team has developed analytical tools through their research in machine learning and Natural Language Processing. These tools enable them to analyse news data with the aim of finding companies that have the highest exposure to and the highest relevance for each investment theme. Or in other words: companies who will profit most from the rising importance of each investment theme.

The investment concerns the acquisition of units in an actively managed fund and not in a given underlying asset.²

1. Spotting themes

The investment process starts with the systematic analysis of innovation-related documents such as academic papers, financial research and think tanks' and futurists' publications. With Natural Language Processing algorithms, the team identifies investment themes that underlie the three key megatrends. Every investment theme is a proprietary dictionary of associated, innovation-related keywords that the IQS team have extracted from the documents. Continuously analysing a broad set of documents makes sure that as soon as a new investment theme emerges, it is captured in the fund. The outcome of this process is a set of investment themes.
Spotting themes

2. Identifying companies

In a second step, the team uses NLP algorithms and the theme dictionaries to scan millions of news data items. The goal: to identify the companies with the highest exposure to, as well as the highest relevance for, the investment themes. Why analyse news data? The team believes that the more often a company is mentioned in the news in the context of an investment theme and its keywords, the higher the company’s relevance for the theme is. Hence, it will profit more from the rising importance of the investment theme.
Identifying companies

3. Creating a multi-theme portfolio

At the end, the identified companies make up a broadly diversified multi-theme portfolio where the theme weights and the underlying company weights within the themes are driven by their number of occurrences in the news data.
Creating a multi-theme portfolio

The performance

The IQS team has been testing its investment approach for five years now.

Past performance does not predict future returns.

Cumulative performance

12 months rolling returns (%)

  30/11/2016
30/11/2017
30/11/2017
30/11/2018
30/11/2018
30/11/2019
30/11/2019
30/11/2020
30/11/2020
30/11/2021
Fund - - - - 15.19
Benchmark - - - - 19.27



The theme dictionaries as of 31 December 2021 were used to screen monthly news data for companies that are associated with the investment themes. Performance results do not reflect the deduction of investment advisory fees. A client’s actual return will be reduced by the advisory fees and any other expenses which may be incurred in the management of an investment advisory account.

The IQS team

The Invesco Quantitative Strategies (IQS) team has been working with large amounts of data for over three decades. They have a long track record in in systematically translating large data sets into investable portfolios. Current research projects include: Artificial Intelligence, ESG, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.

The team behind this fund

Footnotes


  • Source: Statista as of April 2020.

     

    The investment concerns the acquisition of units in a fund and not in a given underlying asset.

    The Fund is actively managed and is not constrained by its benchmark, the MSCI All Country World Index, which is used for comparison purposes. However, the majority of the Fund’s holdings are likely to be components of the benchmark. As an actively managed fund, this overlap will change and this statement may be updated from time to time.

     

    3 Source: Invesco as of 31 December 2021.

Important information

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